Myaamia Center's National Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages receives NEH grant
Participants research language documents at the National Anthropological Archives (photos by Karen Baldwin pre-pandemic).
The Myaamia Center’s National Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages was recently awarded a $349,442 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant.
The Preservation and Access Education and Training grant will support the continued development of the National Breath of Life in the areas of training for community curated tribal archives for language revitalization and building an apprenticeship program for tribal community archivists who work directly with language archives.
National Breath of Life is housed within the Myaamia Center at Miami University’s Oxford campus and is dedicated to supporting partner communities in the training and development of community curated language archives for revitalization. It is co-directed by Daryl Baldwin, executive director of the Myaamia Center, and Gabriela Pérez Báez, associate professor of linguistics at the University of Oregon.